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Artist book

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Bag Lady , 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-32258-33819
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a reproduction of a symmetrical, surrealistic line drawing of a woman's face accompanied by a caption. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Billy! Turn Down That TV!, 1983

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-36995-38828
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book is laid out with two columns depicting three video screens with text and/or image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Bladerunner, 1998

 Item — Box 137: [Barcode: 31858072457900]
Identifier: CC-29616-30989
Scope and Contents

The word "bladerunner" is handwritten repeatedly on each page. The arrangement of this word from page to page differs slightly or greatly. The loose sheet provides instructions for opening the box by sliding the front protruding piece to the left. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Block, 1994

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-03661-3726
Scope and Contents

The theme of this collage was inspired by the thwarting of a gerrymandering attempt by the Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives by the Republicans by reading a 401 page bill, consisting for the most part, of innumerating the voting blocks in the state. The latter would take 8-10 hours to accomplish. Appended to the verso is a fragment of a photocopied article from the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, April 1992 explaining this action. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Book 143, 1989

 Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143673]
Identifier: CC-02651-2694
Scope and Contents

This is Smith's book number 143. Each line of poetry printed on 8 pencils that act as door hinges on the spine. The printed text on the pencils reads Weaving, Back and Forth, Writing in Time, Sewing my Words, Bowing the Box. The pages of this pie shaped book object are blank and as Smith explains in the colophon, ...the poem is not written by the pencils, but upon them. The binding was devised by Hedi Kyle and is called a piano hinge binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Book box with magnifying glass], 1998

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-32294-33856
Scope and Contents

A worn binding of Plato's book, "Republic The Statesman" was remade as a container for an assemblage of booklets, scrolls, wooden rods, gauze and ancient printed texts. The lid of the box contains an inset, ornate magnifying glass through which a portion of the interior box can be viewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Book Object on Brass Feet], 1987

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-34795-36502
Scope and Contents

Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Book of My Life, 1989

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-28722-30028
Scope and Contents

Each page is a molded mask (of the artist?) made of paper with the addition of collage, straw, newspaper clippings, paint and embroidery thread. Each mask fits precisely into the following one, including the one on the cover, creating an exquisite, compact mask book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Book of Nails, 1992

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-11013-11228
Scope and Contents

The authors aka Elizabeth Was and Miekal And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Book Walk Series in the Backwoods, 1978

 Item — Box 110: [Barcode: 31858073143681]
Identifier: CC-36347-38137
Scope and Contents

Nineteen handmade books, drawings and objects are placed randomly within the leather formed feet. the bottom of the feet are hand lettered" Souls that walk Souls that talk." The project was started in 1979; the drawings are dated 1983. The theme of the work is the daily rural life of the Afro-American community including the papermakers at a community center, animal sketches, people and a leather object shaped like Noah's ark. Robinson, who received a MacArthur prize, had a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Books To Burn, 1989

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-23330-23770
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Tom Trusky. The cover and pages are in the the shape of oversize matches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Boundless, 1983

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-03044-3089
Scope and Contents

This a circular book object has a spiral spine completely encircling its cover so that it cannot be opened. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Breathing Both Sides, 1990

 Item — Box 101: [Barcode: 31858073143806]
Identifier: CC-02516-2558
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition, this book object has panels on its sides which jut out that can be moved to and fro much like swimmers use their arms. The top has panels which lie flat as they are flipped, perhaps analogous to the legs. Both text and images are photocopied fragments from books which deal with instructions of methods of breathing during swimming; these have been collaged onto the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Burnt Book], 1995

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-05717-5824
Scope and Contents

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bush Special Playing Cards, 2008

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-50809-71887
Scope and Contents

Each except tor the Joker is collaged with images of coffins draped with the America flag containing dead American soldiers from the Iraq war. The Joker card is collaged with a portrait of George Bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

C-Arte [ painted box], 1991

 Item — Box 57: [Barcode: 31858072538584]
Identifier: CC-04164-4243